As the field matures, its researchers are finding practical applications in solar-energy harvesting, chemical manufacturing, optical refrigeration, and energy-efficient computing.

Lithium niobate-on-insulator (LNOI) is an emerging photonic platform that exhibits favorable material properties (such as low optical loss, strong nonlinearities, and stability) enables large-scale integration with stronger confinement, showing promise for future networks, quantum processors, nonlinear systems. However, while photonics engineering has entered the era of automated “inverse desig...

This Thematic Series of the Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology is devoted to nanophotonics, nano-optics and nanospectroscopy, and covers the field where nanoscience meets photonics, optics and spectroscopy. Since the pioneering days of scanning near-field optical microscopy [1,2], one of the main goals has been to combine scanning probe microscopy techniques with the spectroscopic means to cha...

Electro-optic modulators provide the electrical control of intensity, frequency, and phase an optical signal. They became indispensable part our telecommunication network largely dictate achievable data bandwidths. Novel active material platforms recent advantages in fabrication processing techniques enabled next generation electro-optic featuring significantly improved performance relevant dev...